Another Epiphany

Quote Originally Posted by emilianomorgia
...let's say we copy the content in 7 hd , and we use 7 layers .

Layer one use content from hd 1
Layer two use content from hd 2
I am very curious about this

What I normally do:

What I do when I create content that I sync, is that I use the convention of numbering files with the same offset and I skip numbers.
Let's say, I have three screens, I would use the following convention.

o 000 (No File Used)
o 001 File1 CT.mov
o 002 File1 RT.mov
o 003 File1 LF.mov
o 004 File2 CT.mov
o 005 File2 RT.mov
o 006 File2 LF.mov
o 007 File3 CT.mov
o 008 File3 RT.mov
o 009 File3 LF.mov
o 010 (No File Used)
o 011 File4 CT.mov
o 012 File4 LF.mov
o 013 File4 RT.mov

Obviously, when I jump each decade, I would start over again at xx1 and continue to xx3 for the next file until I have saturated the decade at xx9.

What I could do:

Considering this new idea of using different drives, I consider this.
SCSI Disk 1:

001 Left Content Group 1
001 File1 LF.mov
002 File2 LF.mov
003 File3 LF.mov
004 File4 LF.mov
SCSI Disk 2:

002 Left Content Group 2
001 File1 LF.mov
002 File2 LF.mov
003 File3 LF.mov
004 File4 LF.mov
SCSI Disk 3:

003 Right Content Group 1
001 File1 RT.mov
002 File2 RT.mov
003 File3 RT.mov
004 File4 RT.mov
SCSI Disk 4:

004 Right Content Group 2
001 File1 RT.mov
002 File2 RT.mov
003 File3 RT.mov
004 File4 RT.mov

With this convention, I would name the folder on disk 1 001, disk 2 002, etc so that when the Cat scans, it finds its correct folder structure.

If you also noticed, this convention would have a duplicate folder of each group of content. The idea I have here is that if I wanted to run two layers of content, I could run file1 on layer1 from disk1 and file2 on layer2 from disk2 and then perhaps crossfade again to layer1 for file3 on from disk1 again.

This way, no single disk ever has to seek more than one MOV file at a time.